How do you respond to people from a group that has caused you pain, loss, oppression, or injustice? As a follower of Jesus, what do you do when one of these people becomes a fellow member of the...
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Does engagement with new and different people make you uncomfortable? What is it about them? Is it their language? Their appearance? Their traditions? Have we built 'fences' to keep others out?...
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One of my favorites is a thick slice of freshly baked bread slathered with butter and coated with strawberry jam. It just wouldn't be the same on bread made without yeast. So what's to celebrate...
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"I've read the bit about the Festival of First-fruits" she says, "but I don't get it – what's it got to do with me?" "Well, let's walk through this together. I'm going to propose at least three...
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As we turn the page from Genesis to Exodus we shift forward in time about 400 years. Jacob and his family of 70 or so people has now become an ethnic group numbering in the hundreds of thousands,...
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